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<blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 1805491" data-attributes="member: 1328">Poul Anderson's Three Hearts &amp; Three Lions predated Moorcock's Eternal Champions cycle, and featured a war between Law &amp; Chaos on multiple worlds, with a champion (which BTW was the inspiration for the Paladin, down to the mount and the remove disease ability) fighting on the side of Law on two worlds, both ours and a heroic-fantasy one.[spoiler]Ogier the Dane, rejuvenated as a baby and sent to our world by Morgan la Fay so as to remove him from the impending war between Law and Chaos, grows up as an engineer and moves to the USA to study and find a job. When WW2 erupts, he goes back to Denmark, to fight the Nazi. During an covert operation, he is wounded and knocked out by German gunfire. He wakes up naked in a forest, with an impressive black stallion (strangely named &quot;Papillon&quot;) beneath him. As he discovers this world of myth and legend, meeting a witch, a wood dwarf (the inspiration for D&amp;D gnomes), a hill dwarf (more like a standard dwarf), a swanmay (taken to D&amp;D, too), elves, a wizard, a giant, a troll (the inspiration for D&amp;D's troll, with the green skin, the long nose, the regeneration), dragons and unicorns and these kind of things, he discovers he has a role to play in an impending war between Law and Chaos. Then, once he victoriously complete his quest, having defeated the Chaos' host, he is sent back again to our world, where he needs, there too, to protect the Kingdoms of Danemark and France against the forces of Chaos, which in our world were the Nazi.[/spoiler]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gez, post: 1805491, member: 1328"] Poul Anderson's [i]Three Hearts & Three Lions[/i] predated Moorcock's [i]Eternal Champions[/i] cycle, and featured a war between Law & Chaos on multiple worlds, with a champion (which BTW was the inspiration for the Paladin, down to the mount and the remove disease ability) fighting on the side of Law on two worlds, both ours and a heroic-fantasy one. [spoiler]Ogier the Dane, rejuvenated as a baby and sent to our world by Morgan la Fay so as to remove him from the impending war between Law and Chaos, grows up as an engineer and moves to the USA to study and find a job. When WW2 erupts, he goes back to Denmark, to fight the Nazi. During an covert operation, he is wounded and knocked out by German gunfire. He wakes up naked in a forest, with an impressive black stallion (strangely named "Papillon") beneath him. As he discovers this world of myth and legend, meeting a witch, a wood dwarf (the inspiration for D&D gnomes), a hill dwarf (more like a standard dwarf), a swanmay (taken to D&D, too), elves, a wizard, a giant, a troll (the inspiration for D&D's troll, with the green skin, the long nose, the regeneration), dragons and unicorns and these kind of things, he discovers he has a role to play in an impending war between Law and Chaos. Then, once he victoriously complete his quest, having defeated the Chaos' host, he is sent back again to our world, where he needs, there too, to protect the Kingdoms of Danemark and France against the forces of Chaos, which in our world were the Nazi.[/spoiler] [/QUOTE]

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